Trivial Pursuit at home

When I started montrealfood.com I just kind of thought of it as a miscellaneous food resource — obviously the focus being on restaurants at which we spend our hard-earned cash, but also as a resource to just find out about food. Food in Montreal, of course, but also any food anywhere else.

It’s been seven years, and now I’m discovering that the food reviews need to be not necessarily at restaurants, but people’s homes. Like, I review the dinner I had at Bob and Marie’s. Because restaurants are artificial creations; kind of like going to the theater instead of playing Trivial Pursuit at home. Home-made creations are always humble and proud at the same time; as the cook, you never want to be seen as being overly pretentious but the object is to satisfy everyone, often with the most common comfort food, not fussy piles of ingredients and flavors that will have little impact on the average diner.

Restaurants definitely have their place, but a dinner at Joe Beef will never equal a dinner at my place.

And that’s a rock-solid guarantee.